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Elden Ring's world is filled with various mini-bosses for players to challenge during their playthroughs. These mini-bosses can be found roaming across the map and can be fought anytime players feel like it.
However, just because they are mini-bosses, there is no reason to believe they are easy. The mini-bosses are more challenging than some of the main bosses in the game, so they should be respected.
Nevertheless, in classic FromSoftware style, each of these world bosses, when defeated, drop lots of runes to level up the characters and a variety of unique weapons or spells to use in fights. Thus, players should ensure that they fight these mini-bosses whenever they reach optimal strength.
Every mini-boss that will pose a serious challenge for players in Elden Ring
1) Grafted Scion
This is a boss that players might have faced as soon as they started the game, but, back then, they were supposed to lose to it. However, this boss makes multiple appearances in the game and poses severe challenges at lower levels.
Firstly, the boss has multiple hands, allowing it to land successive blows very fast. Secondly, the boss combines both thrusting and spinning attacks to obliterate the health bar of the players in the blink of an eye.
Using ranged attacks is probably the safest way to fight this boss, as going into melee ranges can make things very difficult.
Location: Stormveil Castle, Fringefolk Hero's Grave
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2) Crucible Knight
While players might have already heard about the Crucible Knight Ordovis boss fight being one of the hardest in the game, the mini version of the same boss is no pushover either.
This is because, in all probability, players will fight the world boss version of Crucible Knight very early in the game. This results in fighting against something that can take away 98% of the player's health pool in one hit.
This means players will need to meticulously dodge every attack by the boss and execute the dodges and parries flawlessly to achieve victory. The boss has a variety of melee and ranged attacks that are usually chained one after the other.
This makes the Crucible Knight one of the hardest mini-bosses within the game.
Location: Stormhill Evergaol
3) Tree Sentinel
The Tree Sentinel is a boss that can be found as soon as players enter Limgrave. However, if players try to fight this boss at that moment, there is a high chance it will one-shot the former with a single hit.
This boss sits atop a horse, making it difficult to follow his movements. Apart from that, the delayed attacks from the boss can be a bit hard to read at first, which often becomes the cause of multiple failures.
The boss hits very hard, has a lot of health, and is highly aggressive. Therefore, unless players are happy spending their first 24 hours dying to the same boss, they should move on, get stronger and come back to the fight later.
Location: Limgrave, Royal Capital (Dual Tree Sentinel)
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4) Black Blade Kindred
Gargoyle-type bosses are pretty popular within FromSoftware titles. However, the version of the same in Elden Ring is arguably the most challenging iteration that players might have ever faced.
The biggest issue when fighting this boss is its massive range. The boss makes a lunge attack, which will reach the player no matter how much the latter tries to run away.
Apart from that, the boss has a wide range of melee and magic attacks that makes finding openings to strike back excessively difficult.
Location: Bestial Sanctum, Forbidden Lands
5) Fallingstar Beast
The final mini-boss to make this list will be Fallingstar Beast. This is a boss that is harder than many major bosses within the game.
This boss is super aggressive and does not stop attacking even for a bit. It uses gravity magic to lift the player in the air and smash them to the ground.
The boss also has very bad hitboxes that make dodging its attacks excessively frustrating. It will take multiple tries to clear this boss, where the first few attempts will be gone trying to survive for more than 30 seconds.
Location: Near Volcano Manor
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